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The marvelous PC port overhauled and further enhanced the gorgeous wild western atmosphere of Rockstar's most recent open-world adventure and added even more activities, unlockables, and impossibly fine details to its expansive map. It's possibly one of the biggest and best single-player PC games ever and it has an extensive multiplayer mode too. RDR2 on PC is handily a must-play for anyone with a rig beefy enough to run it.

Red Dead 2 cracked the top five on our updated list of the best open-world games. Rockstar, meanwhile, recently announced it's moving development resources away from Red Dead Online to focus on GTA 6. Just like its main location, the Oldest House, much more lies beneath the surface of Control, and its mysteries are worth fully exploring.

Also, the PC is currently the only place to play with ray tracing enabled, giving the world a more realistic and yet more otherworldly appearance. Remedy is now working on several new projects, including a Control multiplayer game, the long-awaited Alan Wake 2 , a free-to-play co-op shooter codenamed Vanguard , and remakes of Max Payne 1 and 2.

In that time, no other game has successfully managed to replicate its masterful combination of RPG mechanics, a satisfying gameplay loop, beautifully mellow music, and an ever-growing list of things to do as you while away your time in pastoral paradise.

The creator of Stardew Valley is now working on a brand new sim called Haunted Chocolatier. With 48 playable characters and counting , three massive main areas to explore, and significant events and activities for mid- to late-game players monthly, Genshin Impact is one of the most impressive free-to-play games out there — both in terms of activities and general quality.

In addition to its story-based campaign, there are plenty of great side quests, companion character events, and side stories that offer a nice chance to better get to know characters, solve puzzles, hunt down collectibles, and participate in limited-time events. Even when you've reached the end of what's available of the ever-growing story, there are boss battles and world activities you can play online with friends, stats and weapon optimizations for leveling your acquired playable characters, and plenty more.

Though the late-game does tend to be more of a grind due to some of the randomness high-level character builds require and there are other sporadic balance issues, Genshin Impact is generally a joy throughout. Thankfully, the gatcha or system by which you randomly draw rewards with premium currency in hopes of getting a better weapon or character system isn't too invasive and it's not difficult to earn premium currency without paying.

Sure, it can take a while to save enough to get a guaranteed 5-star character, but it's absolutely possible to do and you'll likely earn other characters along the way. Rockstar has finally confirmed GTA 6 is in development. Driving games are a long-running, important, and respected force in the story of video games, but it takes a special one to completely seize the imaginations of both the car-obsessed and the automotively illiterate so successfully.

By that measure, Forza Horizon 5 is truly special. Whether you want to agonise over car builds and carve away milliseconds from your race times, or just want to cruise around and crash into a cactus or two hundred , it has you covered. We awarded it an 8, calling the DLC "an essential expansion for new and returning Forza fans. No game simulates the feeling of being in command of a starship flying by the seat of your pants like FTL: Faster Than Light.

It's a game you shouldn't expect to survive — more likely, you'll be blasted out of the sky by a vastly superior enemy ship or boarded by a death squad of giant killer insects who massacre your crew. Maybe your life-support system will be hacked and everyone will suffocate. At the same time, the game better utilizes its narrative, tapping into the decades of lore that the Warhammer franchise now consists of. This sequel adds a sense of dynamism and urgency to a series where many players feel safe slowly creeping across the campaign map, knowing that even if their front line falls, their home cities are stoic and safe.

In addition, the scale and enormity of its combat is unparalleled, especially in the Mortal Empires campaign, which combines everything from the first game with everything you see in Total War: Warhammer II.

Battles are not long, arduous, drawn-out affairs, nor do they end too quickly for you to appreciate the size and force of what you're seeing.

The addition of the Vortex campaign and a wider variety of quests far exceed the experience of the original. The game also expands the formula with numerous spells and new marching monsters and units, and the resulting concoction is a strategy game that both Warhammer and Total War fans are guaranteed to love. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice leverages the strengths of video games as a medium and delivers an experience that is unlike anything else released this year.

It's a bold game that explores mental health--specifically psychosis--through the lens of a character-action game wrapped in Norse mythology. The game tackles an important and often misunderstood illness, and allows you to better understand it through visual and aural presentation. Developer Ninja Theory has a long history of developing action games that are fast and fluid in movement while also being mechanically deep and complex, but for Hellblade, the developer scaled this back somewhat.

Playing Hellblade can feel rough and sluggish, but this feeds into the mind-state of its main character, Senua. Returning from self-imposed exile, the young Pict warrior grapples with her inner-demons as she attempts to save the soul of her lover, Dillon.

The act of fighting against demonic apparitions feels like a struggle, as Senua summons every ounce of energy in her body just to keep moving forward, one step at a time. And all the while voices in her head pull her in different directions, some guiding her, while others undermine and belittle her.

But the reason Cuphead is high on this list — and so high, at that — is because of its art and music, which make it feel like an interactive s cartoon. As a young woman, you return to a large family home on the outskirts of society in search of questions to a vague mystery.

But where Gone Home is the video game equivalent of a novella, Edith Finch progresses like a collection of short stories. Each room spurs flashbacks to its previous owner, the objective tied to a specific typically tragic moment in their life. You fly a kite on a stormy shore, take photos on a nature hike or pass a tedious workday with daydreams. It lulls the player with the mundanity of life, and just as in real life, the most shocking moments arrive without warning.

Edith Finch is one of the most existential walking sims out there, examining life and death with humor, grace and sincerity. On paper, Destiny 2 is the most generic flavor of video games: Dime-store sci-fi meets boardroom-approved monetization in a package that tries to merge the the two most exhausted genres of the past decade, the first-person shooter and the online role-playing game.

What elevates Destiny 2 above its contemporaries is its feel. It helps that Destiny 2 is the best console shooter since Gears of War. It just fe e ls right. There's a music cue in Butterfly Soup that, when it plays the first time, is shocking. Is it an amount of challenge? Is it a degree of interactivity? Who gives a shit? Here is a game that plays itself. It exists with or without you. We have the capacity to unmake this world. But with enough care and ingenuity, and a dollop of luck, we can remake it, too.

One-hundred-and-twenty-five hours later, and Persona 5 had snuck thief-like into my heart, changing how I forever felt about games like it. But Resident Evil 7 is something far more ambitious. EA and Activision will undoubtedly follow suit. They lead the charge. If you like combat, enemies are everywhere. If you like building a character, there are weapons and armor to collect and upgrade. If you like side quests, it has dozens of hours of them — including one where you straight-up build a town.

If you like story, Breath of the Wild imbues its characters with more life than any of its predecessors. If you want to collect cuckoos, knock yourself out. Please check your email to find a confirmation email, and follow the steps to confirm your humanity.

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A series of stories about a strange, deceased family, each told with different first-person formats. The interactivity is sparse—it's often a guided experience—but the stories themselves are fantastic. Verdict: Touching, sad, and brilliant; a story worth forgiving the limited interactivity to experience. Inhabit a cow and tumble end-over-end, or become a microbe, or a galaxy. Everything lives up to its name—though it obviously doesn't include literally everything, it lets players become the tiniest molecules or entire islands, planets, and beyond.

Mixed in with this surreal playspace are audio recordings of philosopher Alan Watts. It's a slow burn, but worth the silly, life-examining trip. You're exploring a cave, but you can't see in the dark—except with LIDAR, which paints every surface with colorful dots. It's a unique premise that conveys space the sound design helps, too and natural beauty without rendering a single rock texture. Verdict: A beautiful but short-lived expedition that left me wanting more of its best ideas.

First-person horror at its most disgusting, Outlast 2 suffers from some confusing stealth segments, but makes up for it with pure horror.

For fans of branching paths and horrible deaths, as Andy put it , point-and-click puzzles, and philosophy lectures. A curious adventure game in which the player returns to the start of the same costume ball again and again on a quest to prevent a series of murders that take place during the evening.

The beauty and cleverness of it make up for the built-in repetitiveness. Good things come to those who wait: the PC now has the best version of one of the best hack-n-slash games ever made.

Bayonetta's fluid fighting style—combos, dodges, hair-based attacks—and absurd story deserved 4K and 60 fps support, and we're happy it's finally joined us.

If you dodge in the middle of a combo while holding down either punch or kick, you can resume the combo out of the dodge.

This offset speaks to the fluidity of Bayonetta's fighting style—as does the way she so smoothly transitions from dodge into attack, or from melee to guns. Verdict: A great port of what is still one of the best action games around. Bayonetta is the essential hack-'n-slash. And who doesn't? Stellaris' Utopia expansion overhauls politics, adds factions to your population, and introduces Tradition trees—which are how you might blot out the sun.

The add-on gives Stellaris a big push in the right direction, filling out the previously light mid-game. Big Robot, which is headed by former PC Gamer contributor Jim Rossignol, brings us a sci-fi shooter mystery that's two parts exploration—hopping and stomping around—and one part "crisp, satisfying combat," as our review states. It's slow-paced, but smart, lean, and a step above the developer's previous game, Sir, You Are Being Hunted.

Verdict: A fascinating setting and fizzing gunplay make for a lean, thoughtful exploration-led shooter. Manage a band of mercenaries, earn money to expand your operation and reach more distant contracts on the wide-open map, and fret over decisions in turn-based battles.

A throwback to '90s adventure games, but not a nostalgia-driven rehash—Thimbleweed Park builds on the genre and is great on its own merits. It's funny, and full of smart puzzles that "rarely require the absurd leaps of logic that would have you dialling the LucasArts hint line in the '90s," as Andy put it in his review. Verdict: A quality adventure game with challenging puzzles, oddball characters, and an intriguing, mystery-laden plot. If you aren't turned off by the obtuse introduction and constant, crushing challenge, Rain World rewards with unforgettable gloom.

You just have to be smart about it. You have to learn—and then very vaguely know —how to survive. An office favorite, Nier: Automata is bizarre open-world RPG with PlatinumGames' signature speed-comboing combat—but that can seamlessly transition into twin-stick shooting whenever it wants. The combination works, as does the mournful, weird story and all its quirks.

Andromeda is a contentious game, even—or maybe especially—among PC Gamer's staff and writers: some despise it, some enjoy it. It was burdened by high expectations, and didn't succeed at everything we hoped. But it makes our list if for nothing else because it proves unequivocally how many avenues developers have yet to explore, and how even something this simple can form a connection just as strong if not more so than the relentless bombast of games with a hundred times the budget.

After all, it was billed as a spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment , long considered one of the greatest games ever made. The surprising part is Tides of Numenera mostly pulls it off. Each character has a pool of points which can be spent to ensure success on nearly any task, and those points replenish when you rest. Powerful right? In 30ish hours I only had to sit through a half-dozen fights.

You know, the same reasons people liked Planescape all those years ago. From cities hidden inside transdimensional space slugs to a tavern full of psychics to a room inside your own mind, Tides of Numenera always has some new wonder to show you. It took me three years, but I finally finished The Evil Within in October—after its sequel had already released. In the original Evil Within the brain in question belonged to a psychopath—the reason it all went so wrong. The block of verbs in the lower-left corner, stunning pixel art, mind-bending puzzles—they conjure up memories of Monkey Island , Maniac Mansion , Day of the Tentacle , and so on.

Thimbleweed Park is a Twin Peaks -esque town full of odd and unnerving characters though, like a foul-mouthed clown trapped at the local carnival, or a woman who converted her pie shop to sell vacuum tubes.